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https://community.pearljam.com/discussion/268591/indictments-incomingOut of My Mind and Time said:
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Yeah, I just saw that part. Its not in the indictment though.Merkin Baller said:0 -
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My guess is that you’re hearing people say the payment was fine is because Cohen didn’t go to trial about it, he pleaded guilty instead, so using mental gymnastics, someone could say this is “okay”.mace1229 said:
I had only read the indictment. I hadn't read the Statement of Facts that followed.Halifax2TheMax said:
I suggest folks read both documents.Go Beavers said:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-york-trump-indictment-unsealedMerkin Baller said:
Where can I go to review the evidence that convinced the 23 person grand jury to indict the former president?
That did answer most of the questions I had. And it sounds like he does lay out what the bigger crime was. He says multiple times the payment itself was illegal.
Seems odd because I've heard 100 times this week that there was no mention of the other crime and that he doesn't have to, but he says it "Lawyer A made the $130,000 payment through a shell corporation he set up and funded at a bank in Manhattan. This payment was illegal, and Lawyer A has since pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution."
But I've also heard many times that the payment was fine, it was how it was recorded was wrong. I don't know, I guess we'll see in the coming months what it is.
If hush money payment is illegal during a campaign, then I will admit my previous posts are wrong. But if not, and the only illegal part is how they recorded it, then that still stands there is no bigger crime to make this into a felony.0 -
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Since CNN fired Chris Cuomo and moved D. Lemon to the AM, MSNBC is must-see nightly news at this point.Kat said:I saw a clip with Ari Melber of MSNBC talking with an attorney for the defendant and it seemed to me that they're going to try blaming it all on Michael Cohen. Time will tell.
Ari Melber is the best of the group, AND he's from Seattle.
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The look of a guilty it.ikiT said:
Since CNN fired Chris Cuomo and moved D. Lemon to the AM, MSNBC is must-see nightly news at this point.Kat said:I saw a clip with Ari Melber of MSNBC talking with an attorney for the defendant and it seemed to me that they're going to try blaming it all on Michael Cohen. Time will tell.
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I think with Cohen the argument was since he paid for it initially (and Trump paid him back with monthly installments disguised as legal fees) it should have been considered a donation, and was above the legal limit for a donation. Paying for silence was fine, but coming from a third party like Cohen made it a donation. That was my understanding of it.Go Beavers said:
My guess is that you’re hearing people say the payment was fine is because Cohen didn’t go to trial about it, he pleaded guilty instead, so using mental gymnastics, someone could say this is “okay”.mace1229 said:
I had only read the indictment. I hadn't read the Statement of Facts that followed.Halifax2TheMax said:
I suggest folks read both documents.Go Beavers said:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-york-trump-indictment-unsealedMerkin Baller said:
Where can I go to review the evidence that convinced the 23 person grand jury to indict the former president?
That did answer most of the questions I had. And it sounds like he does lay out what the bigger crime was. He says multiple times the payment itself was illegal.
Seems odd because I've heard 100 times this week that there was no mention of the other crime and that he doesn't have to, but he says it "Lawyer A made the $130,000 payment through a shell corporation he set up and funded at a bank in Manhattan. This payment was illegal, and Lawyer A has since pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution."
But I've also heard many times that the payment was fine, it was how it was recorded was wrong. I don't know, I guess we'll see in the coming months what it is.
If hush money payment is illegal during a campaign, then I will admit my previous posts are wrong. But if not, and the only illegal part is how they recorded it, then that still stands there is no bigger crime to make this into a felony.Post edited by mace1229 on0 -
2023Have folks not learned a thing from Tricky Dick and Watergate? "Its not the crime, its the coverup."
INTRODUCTION 1.
The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.
2. From August 2015 to December 2017, the Defendant orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects. In order to execute the unlawful scheme, the participants violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York. The participants also took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the payments made in furtherance of the scheme.
3. One component of this scheme was that, at the Defendant’s request, a lawyer who then worked for the Trump Organization as Special Counsel to Defendant (“Lawyer A”), covertly paid $130,000 to an adult film actress shortly before the election to prevent her from publicizing a sexual encounter with the Defendant. Lawyer A made the $130,000 payment through a shell corporation he set up and funded at a bank in Manhattan. This payment was illegal, and Lawyer A has since pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution and served time in prison. Further, false entries were made in New York business records to effectuate this payment, separate and apart from the New York business records used to conceal the payment.
4. After the election, the Defendant reimbursed Lawyer A for the illegal payment through a series of monthly checks, first from the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust (the “Defendant’s Trust”)—a Trust created under the laws of New York which held the Trump Organization entity assets after the Defendant was elected President—and then from the Defendant’s bank account. Each check was processed by the Trump Organization, and each check was disguised as a payment for legal services rendered in a given month of 2017 pursuant to a retainer agreement. The payment records, kept and maintained by the Trump Organization, were false New York business records. In truth, there was no retainer agreement, and Lawyer A was not being paid for legal services rendered in 2017. The Defendant caused his entities’ business records to be falsified to disguise his and others’ criminal conduct.
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mace1229 said:I read the indictment. It's essentially the same charge 34 times, with the dates changed to reflect when he signed off on a payment. And each one includes the statement "intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof... "
I've been reading about the Cohen charges and what Trump is charged with and these are the questions I have;
What is the other crime? The money was to cover up an affair. The affair is not a crime. Paying someone off to keep quiet is not a crime. So what bigger crime are these payments part of that they covered up? None that I can think of.
Yes, I know Bragg isn't required to disclose the bigger crime. But come on, you just arrested a former president. It should be obvious what is going on, especially when what the payment was for you arrested him on isn't a crime.
Some keep bringing up Cohen. Ok. If the other crime is the campaign donation that Cohen plead guilty to, then...
These payments were not to cover up the donations, the payments were the donation, so that doesn't make sense.
Is it still even a donation since Trump paid him back, plus an extra 90k for his work?
Everything I read with regards to Trump points to the payments being a campaign expense and therefore needed to be reported, not the donation that Cohen plead guilty to. And that is what these charges are for, misrepresentation of funds by not disclosing it. If that is the case, then there would be no bigger crime that is referred to 34 times. So nothing seems to point that what Cohen plead guilty to is the bigger crime here.
I will have to disagree with those who think the Cohen case is a big factor. the dude plead guilty to 8 felonies, only 2 were connected to Trump. Before you say "well that's still 2 felonies!" I am not convinced he was guilty of those. For the same reasons above, I don't know if he was guilty. Was it really a donation? He was paid back in full and them some. Now it seems more of a reporting issue than a contribution issue. So why did he plead guilty to it? Because he was facing 5 charges of tax fraud totaling $6 million (unrelated to Trump) that could carry a sentence of 5 years each, plus a charge of bank fraud that could carry a max of 30 years. He was caught dead to rights on those charges, so facing an offer of 3 years and only serving 18 months to plead guilty to everything, I t think any one of us would take that. You'd be an idiot not to. Why bother fighting the smallest of all the charges if it means even you win, you still serve lot more time?
I'm not saying Trump didn't do anything wrong and he's an outstanding guy. I'm saying I haven't seen any evidence that brings this up from a misdemeanor to a felony. And not that I'm okay with someone with 34 misdemeanors being president, but that matters because the statute of limitations for the misdemeanor is gone.I thing you are missing the falsification of business records and defrauding voters angle, among many potential related crimes, but we can full stop all of this with two words…tax fraud.
No way he gets around that, because if he goes with the protect family argument, he should have paid the bribe with personal funds, not business funds for which he likely took a tax deduction and you and I subsidized about $60,000 of the cost to Stormy.
edit, one of the payments was from his trust, another from him personally. I am assuming trump took tax deductions for this…possibly not.Post edited by Lerxst1992 on0 -
I didn't even think of that angle. But that actually doesn't make sense. One of the arguments is that this was a campaign expense and not personal, and the whole reason it should have been reported as hush money. So therefore it would be tax deductible. Several have argued here how it can't be personal because it benefitted his campaign, because if it was personal then there is no case here.Lerxst1992 said:mace1229 said:I read the indictment. It's essentially the same charge 34 times, with the dates changed to reflect when he signed off on a payment. And each one includes the statement "intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof... "
I've been reading about the Cohen charges and what Trump is charged with and these are the questions I have;
What is the other crime? The money was to cover up an affair. The affair is not a crime. Paying someone off to keep quiet is not a crime. So what bigger crime are these payments part of that they covered up? None that I can think of.
Yes, I know Bragg isn't required to disclose the bigger crime. But come on, you just arrested a former president. It should be obvious what is going on, especially when what the payment was for you arrested him on isn't a crime.
Some keep bringing up Cohen. Ok. If the other crime is the campaign donation that Cohen plead guilty to, then...
These payments were not to cover up the donations, the payments were the donation, so that doesn't make sense.
Is it still even a donation since Trump paid him back, plus an extra 90k for his work?
Everything I read with regards to Trump points to the payments being a campaign expense and therefore needed to be reported, not the donation that Cohen plead guilty to. And that is what these charges are for, misrepresentation of funds by not disclosing it. If that is the case, then there would be no bigger crime that is referred to 34 times. So nothing seems to point that what Cohen plead guilty to is the bigger crime here.
I will have to disagree with those who think the Cohen case is a big factor. the dude plead guilty to 8 felonies, only 2 were connected to Trump. Before you say "well that's still 2 felonies!" I am not convinced he was guilty of those. For the same reasons above, I don't know if he was guilty. Was it really a donation? He was paid back in full and them some. Now it seems more of a reporting issue than a contribution issue. So why did he plead guilty to it? Because he was facing 5 charges of tax fraud totaling $6 million (unrelated to Trump) that could carry a sentence of 5 years each, plus a charge of bank fraud that could carry a max of 30 years. He was caught dead to rights on those charges, so facing an offer of 3 years and only serving 18 months to plead guilty to everything, I t think any one of us would take that. You'd be an idiot not to. Why bother fighting the smallest of all the charges if it means even you win, you still serve lot more time?
I'm not saying Trump didn't do anything wrong and he's an outstanding guy. I'm saying I haven't seen any evidence that brings this up from a misdemeanor to a felony. And not that I'm okay with someone with 34 misdemeanors being president, but that matters because the statute of limitations for the misdemeanor is gone.I thing you are missing the falsification of business records and defrauding voters angle, among many potential related crimes, but we can full stop all of this with two words…tax fraud.
No way he gets around that, because if he goes with the protect family argument, he should have paid the bribe with personal funds, not business funds for which he likely took a tax deduction and you and I subsidized about $60,000 of the cost to Stormy.
edit, one of the payments was from his trust, another from him personally. I am assuming trump took tax deductions for this…possibly not.
So it can't be both, a campaign expense that he should have paid with personal money and paid taxes on.Post edited by mace1229 on0 -
mace1229 said:
I think with Cohen the argument was since he paid for it initially (and Trump paid him back with monthly installments disguised as legal fees) it should have been considered a donation, and was above the legal limit for a donation. Paying for silence was fine, but coming from a third party like Cohen made it a donation. That was my understanding of it.Go Beavers said:
My guess is that you’re hearing people say the payment was fine is because Cohen didn’t go to trial about it, he pleaded guilty instead, so using mental gymnastics, someone could say this is “okay”.mace1229 said:
I had only read the indictment. I hadn't read the Statement of Facts that followed.Halifax2TheMax said:
I suggest folks read both documents.Go Beavers said:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-york-trump-indictment-unsealedMerkin Baller said:
Where can I go to review the evidence that convinced the 23 person grand jury to indict the former president?
That did answer most of the questions I had. And it sounds like he does lay out what the bigger crime was. He says multiple times the payment itself was illegal.
Seems odd because I've heard 100 times this week that there was no mention of the other crime and that he doesn't have to, but he says it "Lawyer A made the $130,000 payment through a shell corporation he set up and funded at a bank in Manhattan. This payment was illegal, and Lawyer A has since pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution."
But I've also heard many times that the payment was fine, it was how it was recorded was wrong. I don't know, I guess we'll see in the coming months what it is.
If hush money payment is illegal during a campaign, then I will admit my previous posts are wrong. But if not, and the only illegal part is how they recorded it, then that still stands there is no bigger crime to make this into a felony.Doesn’t matter who made the payments . If the purpose was to keep the public from knowing the truth before the election, it’s a campaign contribution. I think it’s a good idea to get comfortable with this first before trying to process if there is a real crime here.Also, Hal posted some very specific legal details here at 1.55pm - as I mentioned earlier trump is stuck between a rock and a hard place if any of his entities took a tax deduction for this, if he tries to claim he bribed stormy for marital reasons. So it’s either tax fraud or an illegal campaign contribution, so it seems, but that’s why we have juries.0 -
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Welp...there are multiple other indictments looming on the horizon that may disagree with this notion....time will tell.HughFreakingDillon said:My guess: guilty with a suspended sentence. No judge is putting a former prez in pridon.www.myspace.com0 -
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maybe not in this case.HughFreakingDillon said:My guess: guilty with a suspended sentence. No judge is putting a former prez in pridon.
georgia and the documents case, though. just watch."You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
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Pence testifying in front of Grand Jury in the J6 probe too. Trump has to be scared shitless with all of this stuff going ongimmesometruth27 said:
maybe not in this case.HughFreakingDillon said:My guess: guilty with a suspended sentence. No judge is putting a former prez in pridon.
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Shoulda drunk the blood of children, then it’d have been immune.HughFreakingDillon said:My guess: guilty with a suspended sentence. No judge is putting a former prez in pridon.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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It actually does matter who made the payments. If Cohen made the payments, it's considered a donation and therefore subject to the donation limits. If it was Trump donating to his own campaign, he is not. One is illegal, the other is totally fine. Still needs to be reported correctly, but one has an underlying crime and the other does not.Lerxst1992 said:mace1229 said:
I think with Cohen the argument was since he paid for it initially (and Trump paid him back with monthly installments disguised as legal fees) it should have been considered a donation, and was above the legal limit for a donation. Paying for silence was fine, but coming from a third party like Cohen made it a donation. That was my understanding of it.Go Beavers said:
My guess is that you’re hearing people say the payment was fine is because Cohen didn’t go to trial about it, he pleaded guilty instead, so using mental gymnastics, someone could say this is “okay”.mace1229 said:
I had only read the indictment. I hadn't read the Statement of Facts that followed.Halifax2TheMax said:
I suggest folks read both documents.Go Beavers said:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-york-trump-indictment-unsealedMerkin Baller said:
Where can I go to review the evidence that convinced the 23 person grand jury to indict the former president?
That did answer most of the questions I had. And it sounds like he does lay out what the bigger crime was. He says multiple times the payment itself was illegal.
Seems odd because I've heard 100 times this week that there was no mention of the other crime and that he doesn't have to, but he says it "Lawyer A made the $130,000 payment through a shell corporation he set up and funded at a bank in Manhattan. This payment was illegal, and Lawyer A has since pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution."
But I've also heard many times that the payment was fine, it was how it was recorded was wrong. I don't know, I guess we'll see in the coming months what it is.
If hush money payment is illegal during a campaign, then I will admit my previous posts are wrong. But if not, and the only illegal part is how they recorded it, then that still stands there is no bigger crime to make this into a felony.Doesn’t matter who made the payments . If the purpose was to keep the public from knowing the truth before the election, it’s a campaign contribution. I think it’s a good idea to get comfortable with this first before trying to process if there is a real crime here.Also, Hal posted some very specific legal details here at 1.55pm - as I mentioned earlier trump is stuck between a rock and a hard place if any of his entities took a tax deduction for this, if he tries to claim he bribed stormy for marital reasons. So it’s either tax fraud or an illegal campaign contribution, so it seems, but that’s why we have juries.
I also mention the either or in my last post. I view it as like an ambidextrous pitcher in MLB facing a switch hitter. The pitcher has to declare which arm he is throwing with first and the batter gets to decide which side of the plate to bat from. I would think the prosecution is has to declare what and how they are charging and then allow the defense to do their thing. Not charge him with one thing then if that doesn't work charge him with tax fraud instead.
I'm not arguing Trump is innocent by any means. The details of this are fascinating to me. It's like a web where one thing hinges on another. I'm guessing they will argue the payment was illegal because it was from an illegal donation. But was it a donation if it was reimbursed? I appreciate a lot of the responses so far.Post edited by mace1229 on0 -
Other fake news about this case, Trump is not the first president to be arrested.
"Ulysses S. Grant, who had an eye for spirited horses and an apparent yen to test their mettle, was arrested in 1872 for speeding on a street in Washington."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/nyregion/ulysses-grant-trump-arrest.html
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Why would he be scared, seriously? The guy has never been held accountable for a thing in his life. I’m guessing he views this the same way.The Juggler said:
Pence testifying in front of Grand Jury in the J6 probe too. Trump has to be scared shitless with all of this stuff going ongimmesometruth27 said:
maybe not in this case.HughFreakingDillon said:My guess: guilty with a suspended sentence. No judge is putting a former prez in pridon.
georgia and the documents case, though. just watch.By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.0 -
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Interesting. But of course, it doesn’t sound as dramatic to say “only the second time a president has been arrested”. Lolmace1229 said:Other fake news about this case, Trump is not the first president to be arrested.
"Ulysses S. Grant, who had an eye for spirited horses and an apparent yen to test their mettle, was arrested in 1872 for speeding on a street in Washington."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/nyregion/ulysses-grant-trump-arrest.htmlBy The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.0
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